State health regulators and pharmacists moved Thursday to embark on a joint project to rid households of outdated, unused medicines capable of harming people if consumed or the environment if disposed of improperly.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment modified rules to allow participating pharmacies and household hazardous waste facilities throughout the state to serve as collection centers for medications — not controlled substances — from households, long-term care facilities and hospice care units.
A Junction City man was arrested in connection with several drug charges and battery on a law enforcement after the Junction City-Geary County Drug Operations Group and Junction City-Geary County SWAT executed a search warrant at 25 Riley Manor Circle in Junction City.
The search warrant was obtained after a month-long investigation by the Drug Operations Group into suspected drug activity at the residence.
The Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce will host the second annual State of the Community Event from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Sunflower Ballroom at the Kansas Expocentre’s Maner Conference Center, near S.W. 17th and Western Avenue.
A luncheon will be served, and will be followed by messages from Shawnee County Commission Chairman Ted Ensley and Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten.
Greg Schwerdt, president of Schwerdt Design Group and chairman of the board for the Topeka chamber, will emcee the event.
LINCOLN, Neb. — Officials unveiled a new preferred route Thursday for the Nebraska portion of the stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline that avoids the state’s groundwater-rich Sandhills region.
The proposed route would veer east around the the Sandhills before looping back to the original route. Developer TransCanada has said the reroute adds about 100 miles to the original 1,700-mile project that would carry oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
A Kansas City man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in federal prison for robbing the Country Club Bank in Leavenworth, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Thursday.
Dale K. Hill, 52, of Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced to 161 months in federal prison.
Hill pleaded guilty one count of armed bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during the robbery.
BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU has named Stuart R. Bell, dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas, as the university’s new executive vice chancellor and provost, effective Aug. 1, pending approval by the school’s Board of Supervisors.
If approved, Bell will replace John Maxwell Hamilton, who held the post on a two-year appointment that began July 1, 2010.
Kansas officials are rethinking a decision to house prison inmates in a county jail and have moved all of them back to a state facility after four escaped, including a convicted murderer, the state Department of Corrections said Thursday.
The remaining 18 prison inmates who were held in the Ottawa County Jail have been returned to the state prison in Ellsworth, department spokesman Jeremy Barclay told The Associated Press. Overcrowding at Ellsworth had led the department to transfer inmates in January to the county jail.
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